Process of embalming



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T. MARTIN. PROCESS OF EMBALMING.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TAYLOR MARTIN, OF FAIRMONT, VEST VIRGINIA.

PROCESS OF EMBALMING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 488,338, dated December20, 1892. Application filed May 19,1892. Serial No. 138,593. (Nospecimens.)

To whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TAYLOR MARTIN, acitizen of the United States,residing at Fairmont, in the county of Marion and State of WestVirginia, have invented a new and useful Method of Embalming andCompound Therefor, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to embalming; and it has for its object to improvethe process usually employed, and to effectually disinfect and preservethe corpse.

With this general object in view the invention consists in a certainnovel process hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in theclaims.

Referring to the drawings:Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form ofapparatus employed in carrying out my process. Fig. 2 is a verticalsectional view of the same.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in both the figures of thedrawings.

In practicing my process I may employ an apparatus constructed asfollows:

Referring to the accompanying drawings; A represents a suitablyconstructed rectangular combustion box, provided with a suitable door a,by means of which access may be gained to the interior thereof and withthe side discharge openings a, in which is inserted the tube of anordinary bulb syringe B. Resting upon the bottom of the combustion boxA, is a fire block 0,111 which is placed a mixture composed of thefollowing disinfectants, to wit; sulphur, charcoal, myrrh, salt, andsalicylic acid, which when ignited upon said fire block will give off adisinfecting gas which may be drawn from the closed box A, and in-.jected by means of the syringe B, into the cavity in the body made forits reception, so as to thoroughly impregnate the body with this gas andserve the function of a powerful disinfectant. In order to provide forthe combustion of the compounds just described within said closed box, amixture of black oxide of manganese and chlorate of potash is fed to theburning mixture from the hopper D, arranged in the top of the boxdirectly over the fire block and from which the oxygen supplying mixtureis forced by the feeding shaft d The gas is injected into the corpse,and subsequently is passed through a suitable body of strong lime waterso as to kill the germs therein and render the same pure, thereby stillsubserving its disinfectant property. In said purified lime water isplaced the following named ingredients, to wit, potassium chloratepulverized alum, saltpeter, potassium carbonate tincture of myrrh, andsalt. When the 'abovenamed ingredients are thoroughly solutionized inthe lime Water, a powerful preserving or embalming fluid is completedwhich subserves all the functions of ordinary fluids, while at the sametime providing for more certain and lasting effects. This same fluid, asthe next step in the method, is injected into the same punctures oropenings made in the body for the reception of the disinfectant gas,after which injection of the embalming fluid, the embalming iscompleted.

Any suitable proportions may be employed for combining the ingredientsof the disinfecting and embalming compositions respectively, but themost desirable proportions may be stated to be as follows:

Disinfectant compound :Sulphur,one-half pound; charcoal, thirty grains;myrrh, thirty grains; salt, two ounces; salicylic acid, thirty grains.

Embalming fluid :Ohlorate of potash, one dram; alum, one-half dram;saltpeter one ounce; carbonate of potash, one dram; tincture of myrrh,one half ounce; salt, three ounces; lime water, one gallon.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is;

1. The method of embalming, which consists, first, in injecting into thecorpse intermingled, disinfectant gases subsequently passing said gasesthrough apurifyingliquld, and finally, injecting into the corpse thesaid purifying liquid impregnated with the same gases and an embalmingcompound, substantially as specified.

2. The method of embalming, which consists, first, in injecting into thecorpse intermingled disinfectant gases, second, passing ing, whichconsists, first, in injecting into the corpse intermingled disinfectantgases, second, purifying the same, and third, combining the gases withan embaiming fluid and in- 5 jecting the Whole into the body,substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

TAYLOR MARTIN.

W itn esses:

ALEX. Row, R. L. FLEMING.

